For historian Annette Gordon-Reed, the contradictions embedded in Jefferson's life are "a window into us, into who we are as Americans."
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For millions of Americans, Obama lifted the nation. For white supremacists, he lit a powder keg. His election supercharged the divisions that have existed since the country's birth. The hate created two Americas. Two realities. Split-screen reactions to the same events, that continued and were exacerbated with President Trump's victory and time in office.
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Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr. and Jemel Roberson are heroes, period. But they won’t be treated as such.
This video is meant to give a non-biased account of the events which unfolded in the years leading up to the First Thanksgiving, and the several years following the feast (roughly 1614-1622).
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His champions now span the ideological spectrum, but left and right miss the tensions in his views.
“In a nation preoccupied by race, the moment when white Americans will make up less than half the country’s population has become an object of fascination. For white nationalists, it signifies a kind of doomsday clock … “
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Ayanna Pressley’s articulate and inspirational acceptance speech as Massachusetts' first black congresswoman.
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What does it mean to be African American? This is a question that is quietly resurfacing in Black discourse, due to the fact that many of our people are rejecting the term as a means of identification. While African American still manages to be socially accepted, it seems many privately take issue with the term.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War.
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It has become tradition for people to put 'I Voted' stickers on Susan B. Anthony's grave on election day in Rochester, New York. NowThis producer Luria Freeman argues that women's suffrage icon Anthony does not deserve your 'I Voted' stickers because of her well documented history of racial bias. While she had abolitionist roots, Anthony and her colleagues did not want to give Black people the right to vote.
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Army medic Tom Geerdes discusses his service during the Vietnam War, and the profound effect it had on his life upon his return home.
Army infantryman Joseph Robertson discusses a deadly confrontation during World War II that continued to haunt him throughout his life.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a border, and an island. But the two countries are very different today: the Dominican Republic enjoys higher quality of life for many factors than Haiti. I went to this island and visited both countries, to try and understand when and how their paths diverged. And I began to learn how those differences are playing out in the present.
Germany’s role as the defender of a liberal and tolerant Europe is in jeopardy: A far-right political party is gaining strength and Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will not seek re-election. We went to Chemnitz, where the far right feels emboldened and is protesting in the streets.
These innovators were never properly recognized for transforming the world we live in.
The wealthy residents of Eagle's Landing voted Tuesday on whether to secede from the metro Atlanta city of Stockbridge, just after a black mayor and an all-black city council took office.
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The state is 40 percent Hispanic, but Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia are the first Hispanic women elected to federal office.
James, a Democrat, cruised to victory over Republican corporate lawyer and first-time candidate Keith Wofford. With more than 81% of the precincts reporting as of 12:15 p.m., James led Wofford by a 59.7% to 34.3% margin.
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In the early 1800s … the US craved a passage to the Pacific Ocean -- and by extension, the shipping routes to Asia. But Mexico inconveniently stood in the way. So the US invaded. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the two-year Mexican-American War in 1848 and ceded present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States."